Audio files of Macon County residents Cayce Russell and Donnie Russell recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. Accompanied by his wife Donnie, Cayce Russell, a well-known banjo player, singer, and storyteller, provides a...

William Campbell served as a private in Co. D, 8th Ark. Inf., CSA. Seen here in a United Confederate Veterans uniform, he held a tattered Confederate battle flag and posed with a young lady wearing a sash with the words "MAID OF HONOR." Campbell...

Cut 29 through the breastworks east of White Bluff. The Nashville & Northwestern Railroad chartered in 1852 but not complete by 1861 . After Federal occupation of Nashville, the railroad was extended west to Johnsonville on the Tennessee River. The...

Volunteer enlistment for Tilman Hurst of Sevier County, aged nineteen and occupied as a farmer. He volunteered on August 1, 1863 to serve as a soldier in the Army of the United States of America. Signed by George W. Gorman, Co. I, 2nd Tenn. Cav.,...

Broadside reads, "Ex-President Johnson Has accepted an invitation to address the people of Lincoln County, at Fayetteville, On Tuesday, July 13th 1869. Come hear him! Printed at the Observer Office, Fayetteville, Tenn."

Carte de visite of Mary Todd Lincoln. Image appears very similar to photograph taken of her by Matthew B. Brady in his New York, N.Y. studio in 1861. Her head and left arm are in different positions and the chair has been edited out, but the dress...

The same night he was here I had a sick soldier-one of Morgans men, and a comrade who attended him. The name of the sick one was Rice-he was 15 years of age. We have bread & meat-wheat coffee & sassafras tea-a little milk & a very little butter....